Richard G Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same problem as the article I link and reproduce below. Is > there a way to get Gnus to keep an IMAP session open without using a > daemon to check for all new messages regularly? > > http://osdir.com/ml/emacs.gnus.user/2006-02/msg00133.html >
I received a reply (below) on the Dovecot mailing list. Could anyone here suggest a Gnus fix? ,---- | [[PGP Signed Part:Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Untrusted, Fingerprint: E643 F0BD FDCD 04D9 FFCB 6279 C948 5251 4055 8AC9]] | On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 17:51 +0100, Richard G Riley wrote: | > Could someone suggest what the solution here is? Dovecot is terminating | > the connection to Gnus after a certain period of activity. It's my own | > mail server so no need to worry about "hogging resources". Should/could | > Dovecot be configured to keep the connection alive, or should Gnus be | > programmed to automatically reopen the conneection? The current problem | > that one can not leave an IMAP group if the connection is cut by the | > server. | .. | > | "dovecot: 2008-01-31 08:50:38Info: IMAP(gour): Disconnected for | > | inactivity" | | I'd say this is a Gnus bug. If an IMAP client wants the connection to | stay open, it should send something at least every 29 mins. Most (if not | all) IMAP servers disconnect connections after 30 minutes of idling. | This is hardcoded in Dovecot, but you can of course change it: | | src/imap/common.h: | #define CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT (60*30) | | [[End of PGP Signed Part]] `---- _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
